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DecoySalamander

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DecoySalamander··on You Don't Need Anubis
Adhering to a narrow definition of a "professional" look signifies immaturity, stemming from a desire for approval from a stereotypically "adult" third party. Personally, I wouldn't take seriously anyone who has a problem with Anubis but doesn't blink when presented with people drawn in the corporate Memphis style.
DecoySalamander··on You Don't Need Anubis
Maybe a web where you provide your credit card number upfront and pay for each outgoing request.
DecoySalamander··on Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
Anime will not disappear if CR implodes. It will still be funded by the Japanese market and other streamers. There will probably be fewer shows per season for a while, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
DecoySalamander··on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
In most cases it's not your data, really, you didn't produce any of it. But it's data about you.
DecoySalamander··on A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
You're looking at it in the wrong way. It's written in the native language of the best content delivery platform we have available.
DecoySalamander··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
The CEO of a healthcare insurer is not involved in "withholding" funds. At best, he sets up policies that distribute a limited amount of funds among millions of claimants who are all in need of help to some degree, but he does that job poorly. If this juvenile logic is applied further, aren't you guilty of the same crime? There are people in need of life-saving drugs and treatments, yet you're just sitting behind your computer withholding funds.
DecoySalamander··on We all dodged a bullet
I do it by reading domain name and comparing it to what I expect it to be. It's not hard and when in doubt I can easily check WHOIS info or search online for references.

This is also easily avaidable by using password manager which will not autofill credentials on a page with a wrong domain.

Edit: And yes, I do this for every link emailed to me that does anythig more high stakes than point me to a newsletter article.

DecoySalamander··on We all dodged a bullet
It wasn't a "normal person" it was a developer that put this into a README of his package

> But beyond the technical aspects, there's something more critical: trust and long-term maintenance. I have been active in open source for over a decade, and I'm committed to keeping Chalk maintained. Smaller packages might seem appealing now, but there's no guarantee they will be around for the long term, or that they won't become malicious over time.

I expect him to know better.

DecoySalamander··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
It really isn't, and I've never seen anyone do that. In every project I've worked on in the past decade, dependencies were only occasionally bumped in the context of some maintenance task or migration.
DecoySalamander··on Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
For autocompletion I suggest giving Zed's own offering another try. It's guesses somewhat correctly at least half the time and is very convenient when it get's what you're trying to do durin a refactor and suggest valid multiline changes. It's still rather annoying when it replaces regular autocompletion for import paths with it's plausible sounding guesses. Before that I was using Cody, but I don't think that they have free tier any more.

> immediately consumed the entire free tier's worth of credits in just a few minutes of normal coding

Happened to me too when I've tried to do a single edit with connected gemini pro. It somehow ran out of free quota even before finishing it.

DecoySalamander··on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
> if the foreigner was so good as the American engineer why wouldn’t they be getting paid the same as the American

You should also ask whether you're paying American so much because they are so good, or are you paying them so much because rents in SF are so high?

> Covid hits and everyone goes remote, but the salaries only go up. They always go up.

Once again, did it go up because COVID infections somehow made american workers even better or because lockdowns caused mini tech boom while money printing tanked the dollar's value?

DecoySalamander··on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
Americans are truly exceptional people. Or, at least, that's what I learned in American-made training on cultural differences. The funniest part is that the training touched on nationalism. You see, nationalism is a negative quality exhibited by people in other countries. Americans have a positive version of that: patriotism.
DecoySalamander··on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
> And I rarely see non-americans say something like "I think our customers would like it if we added X to the product, can I work on that?".

The most crucial difference in this context is that Americans are employed directly by the company, while foreign workers are behind several layers of management belonging to several companies. While you can walk around and deliver elevator pitches to higher-ups, foreign workers must track their time spent on tasks down to the minute in Jira. Then, they must find a manager who would like to pitch a feature to a manager who would pitch a feature to a manager in the U.S.

DecoySalamander··on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs
Getting high level ideas "X but Y with Z" is easy. What's hard is actually understanding what makes X work and how to adapt it to properly incorporate Y. I've played a bunch of games that had Vampire Survivors, FTL or Factorio as their starting point, but failed to deliver a good game loop.
DecoySalamander··on Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems
What exactly are these gardens walling against if they have microtransaction-infested unregulated-gambling games and data-mining apps?
DecoySalamander··on We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism
There is no need for any amount or people on the planet, or any other kind of animal for that matter. "Need" is the wrong category to apply to anyone's existence.
DecoySalamander··on We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism
The fact that they can only do that inside the human imagination is another argument for human exceptionalism.
DecoySalamander··on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse
This isn't necessarily contradictory. A government can choose not to prosecute certain crimes, such as property crimes targeting lower classes or crimes committed by certain social groups, while cracking down on what it perceives as a threat to its power.

I'm not saying that this is happening in the UK now, but every piece of news I hear about it is less than great, to say the least.

DecoySalamander··on How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
You didn't dump React, it's still there in your dependencies.
DecoySalamander··on How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
I think you will have a much better time if you generate a new, empty React project with Vite and just drop your existing components into it. I almost suggested not updating at all and keeping your dependencies as they are, but createReactApp was too much of a bloated mess even in its heyday.
DecoySalamander··on Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters
If this story reflects poorly on anyone, it's on Britain, not Discord.
DecoySalamander··on Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters
The idea that some countries have managed to block children from accessing adult content is laughable. But are there countries that have banned guns? A quick Wikipedia check shows that, in 2025, more people were killed in school shootings in Europe than in the U.S.
DecoySalamander··on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well
> This is not a bug

It's not a bug if we're talking about a mischievous jinn granting wishes instead of a productivity tool.

DecoySalamander··on Show HN: Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D
It's great for organizing your scenes, and at least for me, it's far more readable than raw Three.js code. Unfortunately, games, especially real-time ones, don't map well to idiomatic React code. You might find yourself putting bits of game logic into various awkward places. Still, I don't think there's a better alternative for the web, except maybe Threlte if you're fine with a smaller ecosystem.
DecoySalamander··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
This question is difficult to answer because it's unclear what you mean by "right" in this context. The moral high ground? Russia doesn't have that now, nor has it ever had it throughout its history of military expansionism.
DecoySalamander··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
Putin absolutely orders attacks on Kyiv, and he would take out the Ukrainian government if he could. The Russians just lack the capacity to do so.
DecoySalamander··on Why old games never die, but new ones do
A different question to ask is why the public is obligated to enforce artist's rights in perpetuity? And don't forget that artworks don't just spawn from a single mind - they are buit upon existing, freely available art and general culture, which isn't a subject to special protection in the first place.
DecoySalamander··on Critical CSS
Your page would still need the full CSS sheet loaded to render properly - tailwing classes do nothing on their own.
DecoySalamander··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Not that bad of a thing if you don't mind Mozilla closing shop or pivoting to promotion of crypto scams and sports betting.
DecoySalamander··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Right now, most untrusted code runs in the browser's sandbox, and that's great - outside of the realm of fancy 0 days, the damage is limited.

But if downloading apps becomes the norm again (like every online store asking you to get their app and an extra app for a discount program), I expect that socially engineering less technical users into downloading malware will become much easier.

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